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So, * [[User:Amylin|amylin]] recommends taking the #2 subway train out to the last stop, Wakefield- 241st St. and walking about a mile from there to the [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=1145104329767828159,40.903428,-73.850375%3B17266531610081419525,40.912360,-73.832180&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=241st+St+-+Wakefield+Station+%4040.903428,-73.850375&daddr=40.912118,-73.832245&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=15&sll=40.909977,-73.837309&sspn=0.014724,0.033431&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1 Mount Vernon East Metro-North station], where you can take a local train a bit farther afield. To hitchhike to Providence, [[Rhode Island]] on a cold winter's day, she took the $4.75 train to [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=325+Heights+Rd,+Darien,+CT+06820&sll=41.224118,-72.559204&sspn=1.875734,4.279175&ie=UTF8&ll=41.069322,-73.492999&spn=0.007344,0.016716&z=16&om=1 Noroton Heights] in Darien, CT, usually with changing trains in Stamford, and officially started from there. She recommends this route for hitchhiking North, especially if you don't want to spend a lot of money getting out of the city or time waiting outside. In Noroton Heights [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=325+Heights+Rd,+Darien,+CT+06820&sll=41.224118,-72.559204&sspn=1.875734,4.279175&ie=UTF8&ll=41.069322,-73.492999&spn=0.007344,0.016716&z=16&om=1 there is an on-ramp about 1km from the train station]. There is a steady flow of cars who mostly have to stop before entering the on-ramp, and the area is suitable for low-key camping out. A local police patrol car passed her while she stood with her thumb out but did not harass her. (Whereas, if you take the Metro-North train from Grand Central Station in Midtown Manhattan, you'll pay almost double for the ticket, plus the $2,25 subway fare to get to the station. So, if you're already on the subway, you might as well get the most of your $2,25 and take it as far out as possible.) [[User:Zenit|Zenit]] followed these instructions in July 2010 and highly recommends them as well. Also on the train his ticket was never checked.
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Hopping freight trains is a common way to ride long distances for free. It is extremely practical to do if you have phone or internet access, because there are numbers and/or websites that will give you the direction that each freight is headed and its estimated time of arrival, based on that freight's identification number.
== Hitchhiking ===== Heading North ===
Advice: Don't get stuck in [[Albany (New York)|Albany]].
[[User:gerbennap|Gerben]] took the subway out on line 2 to the last stop, and then walked to the commuter train at Mt.Vernon East, direction Stamford, and got off at Rye. There you can start hitching on the onramp of the I287. [[User:gerbennap|Gerben]] used a sign saying 'Up North' and got picked up after 20 minutes and taken all the way to [[Albany (New York)|Albany]].
=== Heading West/South-West (Interstate I78) ===
The Interstate I78 is a road that more or less comes from NYC and passes New Jersey and leads into direction Harrisburg.
Since New Jersey might be a little bit tricky and hitchhiking is kind of outlawed there, it can be best to take a bus ride.
For 20.5 dollars you can get to [[Allentown]] in [[Pennsylvania]], hence bypassing New Jersey.
The bus leaves New York at the Port Authority bus terminal. In Allentown you can walk or hitchhike (within the city) to the entrance of the I78.
=== On I-95, toward [[New Haven]], [[Providence]], and [[Boston]] ===
I-95 North runs along the Eastern coast of [[New York State]] and [[Connecticut]] at this point. Leaving New York City can be very complicated, especially getting past the Bronx, a borough full of decidedly "dangerous" low-income neighborhoods. When [[User:Amylin|amylin]] was researching on ways out, she found this quote on a website: "A hitchhiker killed in the Bronx will be referred to, by police, as a suicide victim."
* [[User:Stove|Stove]] recommends taking the "B" or "D" subway to Fordham, and walking the six blocks south ("right") on Fordham Rd to Metro North. This requires less walking, and the New Haven Line trains stop here more frequently on their way north. This is still outside of the Manhattan fare price hike, and much easier/quicker to access.
If heading towards [[Vermont]], take the Metro North all the way to Danbury, CT (Change in E. Norwalk). This puts one right on RT 7, which winds through the hills of Massachusetts and Vermont all the way to the Canadian border. [[User:Stove|Stove]] routinely takes this route, and cna easily make it to Burlington starting from Danbury in the morning.
